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Under-represented disciplines

A country and discipline pair appears here when the discipline is substantial across the corpus but thin in that country. Measured by location quotient— the country’s share of a discipline against the corpus share — so it reflects composition rather than size.

Only countries with at least 2 000 subject assignments are included: below that, an absence is sampling noise rather than a signal.

São Tomé·materials science
60.25% vs 3.04%0.08×
Mali·materials science
380.40% vs 3.04%0.13×
Gambia·materials science
150.42% vs 3.04%0.14×
Uganda·materials science
2560.48% vs 3.04%0.16×
Somalia·materials science
270.57% vs 3.04%0.19×
São Tomé·engineering
431.80% vs 8.77%0.21×
Guinea·materials science
250.68% vs 3.04%0.22×
DR Congo·materials science
1360.68% vs 3.04%0.23×
Zambia·materials science
1300.70% vs 3.04%0.23×
GA·materials science
330.73% vs 3.04%0.24×
Tanzania·materials science
3800.76% vs 3.04%0.25×
Sierra Leone·materials science
320.78% vs 3.04%0.26×
Egypt·economics, econometrics and finance
4k0.94% vs 3.26%0.29×
Mali·engineering
2392.53% vs 8.77%0.29×
US·nursing
480.72% vs 2.45%0.29×
Kenya·materials science
8960.90% vs 3.04%0.30×
Gambia·engineering
932.61% vs 8.77%0.30×
US·business, management and accounting
650.97% vs 3.22%0.30×
MU·immunology and microbiology
330.86% vs 2.74%0.31×
Benin·materials science
1590.98% vs 3.04%0.32×
Guinea·engineering
1082.92% vs 8.77%0.33×
FR·health professions
911.50% vs 4.46%0.34×
Niger·materials science
791.02% vs 3.04%0.34×
Algeria·immunology and microbiology
1k0.93% vs 2.74%0.34×
FR·business, management and accounting
671.10% vs 3.22%0.34×

About these figures

A snapshot of how OpenAlex classifies the published output of researchers by institution and broad subject. Sources: OpenAlex, HAL and DOAJ.

  • Counts are records, not verified people — roughly 6.7 % share a name with another record, so totals are an upper bound.
  • Subjects are classifications of published work, not skills anyone declared. Locations are the institution’s, not the person’s.
  • There is no time dimension: nothing here describes trends, growth or how recent a researcher’s work is.
  • Coverage reflects what OpenAlex indexes and what we collected — not a country’s research capacity.